Thank you for such a great response and answer, although I feel I’ve sold my knowledge of leftist ideas a bit short since you have given me a introduction into all of it as well as your answer. But you did answer my question well so a follow up question, given that people could take advantage of the government in some sense, is it not a concern that new class styled system could take hold, one centered on favors from the central government.

Another question which is probably less boring than my last couple, is do Marxist want to see eventual end of all oppressive forces, not just class based. To that extent I would think having a central government would be incompatible since it would allow for some one to take advantage of their position.

Separately, I would think most people can solve their problems if given the means to do so, or the access to those with knowledge - is further centralization really the solution?

I’ll take a skeptical look at your reading list. But you’ve given me some incredible insight into the ideas of Marxists, so thank you for that!

Seeing around this thread you clearly know your stuff. So it feels appropriate to reply to you with questions I have,

Somewhere in this thread one you thing you mentioned was the state/administration would have its exploitative elements removed and would just become an administrative and directive organization, slowly withering away. To me this feels contradictory, the same process that allow an organization to direct resources are surely the same process that allow an organization to exploit people?

I’ve probably failed to word that correctly, so to illustrate what I mean, the guy who control who gets what, can just say “do what I want or I’ll deny you blah”, now what the administrator wants can of course be influenced by money, like today’s politicians, but I’m sure there are plenty of other things people want and could seek to gain - or even just the joy of controlling people.

I suppose you can have checks, but that feels like a band aid if you accept what I said early, the institution in power is inherently able to exploit people - all checks have done is make it more difficult.

To me this is not a consequence of the state/administration being exploitative, rather a consequence of the state having authority to control resource flow at all.

I always camped in the areas of anarchist leftism, but I’m interested to see what you think and I’m not well read enough to comment properly so I imagine there’s a lot of mistakes in this reply so sorry in advance

I have more questions, but this is quite long already so I’ll leave it here

Take the rate of change by time of that curve and plot it, you’ll see a massive spike during today, And a line that bounces around zero for the rest of timeframe.

This was a map posted on a map subreddit a while ago, as a kind of alternative history/future. I can’t remember the details but I remember seeing it.

Trump’s voting base don’t have the skill to make work like this, nor apparently the imagination. What this is indicative of is that a portion Trump’s voting base is dreaming of war and conquest, and in lieu of recent comments by Trump, Trump too.

Don’t question the map, I’m sure someone with some time can find the original poster but it would have been made for some fun.

Ok that is a great link actually, so the agenda against trans people continues obviously, Although noticably the rate of change in the year to year trans bills has decreased significantly, jumping from 75 to 185 from 2022 to 2023 but staying at about 185 for 2024. That is probably what gave me the hunch, I was expecting this year to be twice as bad as last year and in fact it’s only slightly worse.

That would indicate a loss in momentum for the transphobic policy line, although This could just be a point of inflection like in 2022 and that will see another surge in 2025.

But yeah overall that lines up with what I thought was going on, although I was more optimistic than the data shows, thinking that transphobic policy had gone down this year.

I’ve been slowly growing a smallish server with content, I find growing the numbers to be almost more fun than actually consuming the content I have gained possession of.

I don’t have a favorite system font, am I meant to? I did try to play with fonts at one point but the process of finding fonts and then figuring out how to install them was a bit much.

Immich is what got me into self hosting, an incredible piece of software (is that the right term?), and I can’t wait to see where it goes into the future.

I started using Organic Maps recently, it’s incredible that so much of Google Maps can be done offline, and the maps are sooooo pretty. It was certainly something I didn’t expect to find and was a pleasant surprise.

Yay when I’m free later today I’ll make some memes to join your effort to revive this place.